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Daybreak™ is a fresh, upbeat approach to morning devotions and prayer. Host Paul Sadek leads you in spiritual reflections and meditations from the daily Mass readings, Morning Prayer, the Holy Father’... more
FAQs about Daybreak:How many episodes does Daybreak have?The podcast currently has 1,867 episodes available.
July 16, 2024Daybreak for July 16, 2024 Tuesday of the 15th Week in Ordinary Time Optional Memorial of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/16/24 Gospel: Matthew 11:20-24 ...more52minPlay
July 15, 2024Daybreak for July 15, 2024 Monday of the 15th Week in Ordinary Time Memorial of St. Bonaventure, 1221-1274; baptized John, but received the name Bonaventure when he became a Franciscan at the age of 22; St. Francis is credited with healing Bonaventure as a boy of a serious illness; Bonaventure was eventually elected to serve as General Minister of the order, at a time when it was embroiled in conflicts over the interpretation of poverty; Bonaventure structured the order through effective legislation, and offered an organized spirituality based on the vision and insights of Saint Francis; Pope Gregory X made him a cardinal and appointed him bishop of Albano; but while participating in the Second Council of Lyon, Saint Bonaventure died suddenly on July 15, 1274 Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/15/24 Gospel: Matthew 10:34-11:1 ...more52minPlay
July 14, 2024Daybreak for July 14, 2024 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/14/24 Gospel: Mark 6:7-13 ...more1hPlay
July 13, 2024Daybreak for July 13, 2024 Saturday of the 14th Week in Ordinary Time Optional Memorial of St. Henry II, 973-1024; born in Hildesheim, Bavaria; became Duke of Bavaria when his father died in 995, and emperor when his cousin Otto III died in 1002; crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Benedict VIII; also miraculously cured by St. Benedict; wanted to be a Benedictine, and lived as an oblate Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/13/24 Gospel: Matthew 10:24-33 ...more1hPlay
July 12, 2024Daybreak for July 12, 2024 Friday of the 14th Week in Ordinary Time Saint of the Day: St. John the Iberian; a noble of southern Georgia, also called Iberia, and a military leader; went with his son, St. Euthymius, to Mount Olympias in Bethynia, and then to Mount Athos in Macedonia; there, he founded a monastery which endured into the 20th Century; died 1002 Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/12/24 Gospel: Matthew 10:16-23 ...more52minPlay
July 11, 2024Daybreak for July 11, 2024 Thursday of the 14th Week in Ordinary Time Memorial of St. Benedict, 480-547; born into a distinguished family in central Italy; drawn to monasticism, he became a hermit, and then withdrew to a high cave in the mountains; some monks chose him as their leader for a time, but many disagreed with his strictness; he conceived of gathering various families of monks into one “Grand Monastery” to give them the benefit of unity, fraternity, and permanent worship in one house; he then began to build Monte Cassino; the rule which gradually developed prescribed a life of liturgical prayer, study, manual labor, and living together in community under a common abbot Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/11/24 Gospel: Matthew 10:7-15 ...more52minPlay
July 10, 2024Daybreak for July 10, 2024 Wednesday of the 14th Week in Ordinary Time Saint of the Day: St. Veronica Giuliani, 1660-1727; native of Binasco, near Milan, Italy, born in 1660; she entered the Capuchins in 1677, and served as novice mistress for 34 years; received a stigmata in 1697, and had visions, the accounts of which are quite detailed; she remained practical in spite of her ecstatic experiences; became abbess in 1716, a role she served until her death Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/10/24 Gospel: Matthew 10:1-7 ...more52minPlay
July 09, 2024Daybreak for July 9, 2024 Tuesday of the 14th Week in Ordinary Time Optional Memorial of St. Augustine Zhao Rong and Companions, the Chinese martyrs; the 120 martyrs in this group died between 1648 and 1930; Augustine Zhao Rong was a Chinese soldier who accompanied Bishop John Gabriel Taurin Dufresse of the Paris Foreign Mission Society to his martyrdom in Beijing; all 120 were canonized on October 1, 2000 Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/9/24 Gospel: Matthew 9:32-38 ...more52minPlay
July 08, 2024Daybreak for July 8, 2024 Monday of the 14th Week in Ordinary Time Saint of the Day: St. Priscilla; she and her husband, Aquila, the tent-maker, were forced to leave Rome, and settled in Corinth, where they provided lodging for Paul--who may have converted them to Christianity; they went with Paul to Ephesus, and then back to Rome; they suffered martyrdom in Asia Minor according to the Roman martyrology, but one tradition has them martyred in Rome Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/8/24 Gospel: Matthew 9:18-26 ...more52minPlay
July 07, 2024Daybreak for July 7, 2024 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/7/24 Gospel: Mark 6:1-6 ...more1hPlay
FAQs about Daybreak:How many episodes does Daybreak have?The podcast currently has 1,867 episodes available.